Speaking and Workshops
High-impact talks, panels and workshops that build leadership capability, accelerate progression, and drive organisational performance.
From webinars and panel discussions to half-day and multi-day workshops, I partner with organisations to address leadership capability gaps, stalled progression and succession risk through practical, commercially grounded engagements that increase leadership effectiveness, execution, and organisational impact.
Organisations bring me in when leadership capability hasn’t kept pace with the demands of the role. High performers are promoted for delivery, but struggle to lead through others. Succession pipelines slow, progression stalls, and performance begins to erode in subtle but costly ways.
Speaking engagements and workshops help organisations pinpoint where leadership capability, sponsorship and decision-making structures are limiting performance. They surface the moments where leaders become bottlenecks, progression slows, or accountability breaks down, creating a clearer picture of what needs to change. These sessions often act as the starting point for deeper leadership development, Women in Leadership initiatives, or longer-term partnerships focused on building capability at scale.
Signature Topics
The Breakpoint Between High Performer and Leader
The transition from high performer to effective leader is one of the most underdeveloped — and most expensive — inflection points inside organisations. This session focuses on the capability shift required to move beyond task delivery and lead through others, including decision-making, delegation, coaching and influence.
It examines why leadership readiness often lags promotion, where succession pipelines stall, and what enables leaders to operate effectively at the next level by strengthening progression, performance and organisational capacity at scale.
Ideal for leadership teams, emerging and mid-level leaders, and organisations strengthening succession.
Women in Leadership: Sponsorship, Progression and System Change
Women don’t lack ambition or capability — they lack access to the sponsorship, visibility and decision-making ecosystems that convert talent into career progression. This session focuses on the structural and cultural dynamics shaping women’s advancement into senior roles, why mentorship alone doesn’t close progression gaps, and how sponsorship and organisational accountability strengthen succession, performance and organisational resilience.
The focus is practical and research-informed, addressing both the system conditions that enable progression and the leadership capabilities required to step into senior roles with confidence and authority.
Ideal for organisations addressing progression gaps, succession risk and leadership diversity.
Strategic Influence & Decision-Making
As leaders move into broader roles, technical expertise is no longer enough. Performance increasingly depends on the ability to think strategically, influence across functions, and make sound decisions in complex, high-stakes environments.
This session focuses on how leaders develop strategic judgement, navigate competing priorities, and influence outcomes beyond their formal authority — strengthening execution, organisational alignment and performance as scale and complexity increase.
Ideal for senior leaders, Directors, VPs and leadership teams operating across complex stakeholder environments.
Speaking and delivery formats
Sessions are designed to be practical, commercially grounded and tailored to organisational context. Many organisations begin with a speaking engagement to surface leadership capability gaps, progression constraints or decision-making challenges, then expand into workshops or longer-term leadership or Women in Leadership programmes as priorities become clearer.
Webinars and lunch-and-learns (60–90 minutes)
Focused, high-impact sessions that surface leadership capability gaps, progression constraints and decision-making challenges. These engagements are often used to diagnose issues, test appetite for deeper work, and inform next steps in leadership or Women in Leadership development.
Keynotes and presentations
Engaging talks for leadership events, conferences and offsites that challenge prevailing assumptions and offer clear, commercially grounded perspectives on leadership capability, progression and performance. Designed to engage senior audiences and frame issues that require organisational attention.
Panels and moderated discussions
Participation in panels, conferences and moderated discussions on leadership capability, strategic influence, progression and women in leadership. These forums are used to explore real organisational challenges, surface differing perspectives and contribute informed, practical dialogue at senior level.
Workshops (half-day, full-day or multi-day)
Interactive sessions that build leadership capability in depth, translating insight into observable changes in behaviour and decision-making. Workshops focus on strengthening judgement, influence, leadership through others and organisational readiness as roles and complexity increase.
Who this is for
This work is designed for organisations seeking to strengthen leadership capability, progression and performance across the business.
It’s particularly relevant in complex, high-pressure environments including financial services, technology, professional services and fast-growing, regulated industries where leadership effectiveness, succession and retention directly affect results.
Typical clients include:
Leadership and executive teams
HR, Talent and Learning & Development leaders
Organisations investing in leadership capability, succession planning and women in leadership
Internal networks and sponsors supporting progression and leadership development
Why partner with me
I bring over two decades of experience working inside fast-paced financial and technology environments, where leadership capability, decision-making and influence directly affect performance, progression and retention.
My work is shaped by real organisational dynamics such as pressure, politics, competing priorities and accountability, rather than theory alone. I combine that lived experience with internationally accredited coaching expertise and evidence-based approaches to leadership development, allowing me to engage credibly with senior audiences while delivering work that is practical, grounded and relevant.
Organisations partner with me because I understand what leaders are navigating as roles expand, expectations rise and complexity increases. Whether in a speaking engagement, panel or workshop, my focus is on changing how leadership shows up day to day through decisions, delegation and influence, and creating work organisations can build on through deeper development or longer-term initiatives.